ISIL claims responsibility for multiple deadly attacks in Syria

ISIL claims responsibility for multiple deadly attacks in Syria

SYRIA -- ISIL has claimed responsibility for multiple explosions in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous, which are said to have killed more than a hundred people.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave the death toll and reports at least five of the blasts were suicide attacks. The group says an unknown number of people were also injured in the blasts.

In total, there are believed to have been seven car bomb explosions – four in Jableh, in Latakia province and three further south in Tartous.

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